Word: beaching
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Kirkland Street door slot. The authors are scattered about the nation, most of them belonging to an older generation. Audience, despite its opening editorial protestations, is just another little magazine. If there are too few in Cambridge, there are too many in America--from Washington Square to North Beach...
FREDERIC BESSINGER Seal Beach, Calif...
...Phil Hart, easygoing Charlie Potter will discover a serious threat to second-term ambitions. Pennsylvania-born Hart is, like Potter, a wounded World War II veteran; he was hit by D-day mortar fire on Utah Beach. Lawyer Hart has eight photogenic children and an attractive, politically savvy wife. Jane Briggs Hart pilots her own Beechcraft Bonanza, flies her husband around Michigan at campaign time, has money enough as the daughter of the late Walter 0. Briggs (auto bodies, the Detroit Tigers) to afford the airplane and the campaigns...
When the average driver tries to cut loose on a crowded highway, he is playing a dangerous game; first prize may be the last. But last week the dodgers and weavers got a break. At Florida's abandoned Flagler Beach Airport, even the local cops turned out to cheer as amateurs and pros whipped through brand-new driving tests devised by the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. Instead of NASCAR's usual straight dashes down the tide-smoothed sands of Daytona Beach, the association concocted its 1958 stock-model performance tests as a yardstick of automobile...
...speed-happy crew at Daytona Beach whipped through the safety tests at a far faster clip than the Sunday driver would dare. Contestants took off in the maneuverability trials with wheels screeching, barreled into intersections at 50 m.p.h. and jammed their brakes to the floor in a panic stop. In the passing trials, those whose cars had automatic transmissions rode behind the pace car with left foot on the brake, right foot heavy on the throttle. When the time came to pass, they simply released the brake. Already revving up to almost full power, the engine shot them ahead with...